The Mash-Up Americans is your guide to the hyphen-America world we all live in. Amy S. Choi and Rebecca Lehrer talk culture, identity, what makes us who we are. Get to know yourself, America. At The Mash-Up Americans we are celebrating and challenging the raucous, colorful, complicated country we live in by asking all the important, awkward questions: What does it mean to be an immigrant in America? What cultural baggage do we bring to sex and relationships? Why is Korean skincare so popular? When does something get upgraded from the ethnic aisle? Get more at mashupamericans.com
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Mash-Up Americans is your guide to the hyphen-America world we all live in. Amy S. Choi and Rebecca Lehrer talk culture, identity, what makes us who we are. Get to know yourself, America.
Recent episodes include "Day 30: Begin At The Beginning" (18 March 2026, 1 minute), "Day 29: Our Stupid Hearts" (17 March 2026, 1 minute), and "Day 28: Kind Hands" (16 March 2026, 1 minute).
The Mash-Up Americans publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 1 minute across 154 episodes.
Booking probability for The Mash-Up Americans is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Mash-Up Americans requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Mash-Up Americans's contact route on record: verified email.
The Mash-Up Americans is a society podcast with 154 episodes published.
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Episode #30
<p>And end when it’s time. Wisdom from Lewis Carroll, from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, published by MacMillan in 1865. </p><p>Thank you for joining us on this 30-day celebration of Lunar New Year. We hope you have...
Episode #29
<p>Our hearts are broken and we’re so grateful for it. Meditations in an Emergency, by Cameron Awkward-Rich, from Dispatch, published by Persea Books in 2019.</p><p>This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different...
Episode #28
<p>What is there but kindness? I Am Not Alone Here, by Jacqueline Suskin from The Verse for Now, published by Flower Press in 2025</p><p>This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily...
Episode #27
<p>Despite reality, reality also demands joy. Life goes on. Thank you to Wislawa Szymborka for Reality Demands, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, published in View With A Grain of Sand by Harcourt...
Episode #26
<p>Be you, and do it on purpose! Thanks to Maya Angelou and Dolly Parton. </p><p>This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor...
Episode #25
<p>Summoning our strength of heart with Rabbi Susan Goldberg of our beloved Nefesh in Los Angeles. </p><p>This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and...
Episode #24
<p>Let Bong Joon Ho show us the way. </p><p>This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone...
Episode #23
<p>What is art? Thank you to Shaun Usher of the Letters of Note Newsletter, one of our very favorite joys of the internet.</p><p>This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes...
Episode #22
<p>How do we ask for what we need? Different Ways to Pray by Naomi Shihab Nye, from Words Under the Words: Selected Poems, published by Far Corner Books in 1995. </p><p>This Lunar New Year we’re trying something...
Episode #21
<p>A poem (a prayer?) from Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi. </p><p>This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire...
Episode #20
<p>James Baldwin has something to say about it. From Notes on the House of Bondage, published in The Nation in 1980.</p><p>This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art...
Episode #19
<p>More advice from some of the greats. Wisdom from across the 20th century from Franz Kafka and Eddie Murphy. </p><p>This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art...
Episode #18
<p>Remembering everything that comes in our name is essential. Be proud! Be Choi. Choi Jeong Min by Franny Choi, published in Poetry Magazine in 2016.</p><p>This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days...
Episode #17
<p>We can let it fall, sometimes. A Poem for Someone Who Is Juggling Her Life, by Rose Cook, from Notes From a Bright Field, published by Cultured Llama in 2013.</p><p>This Lunar New Year we’re trying something...
Episode #16
<p>A few proverbs from across the continents, tied together by the Dalai Lama. </p><p>This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and...
Episode #15
<p>Sometimes democracy requires patience. Don’t we know it! Democracy Poem #1 by June Jordan, from The Essential June Jordan, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020.</p><p>This Lunar New Year we’re trying something...
Episode #14
<p> If we use our time well, we have plenty of it. A reminder from the philosopher Seneca, from On The Shortness of Life. </p><p>This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes...
Episode #13
<p>Can you draw your own face? Some notes by Jorge Luis Borges from Horse, Stars, Men, published in Aleph and Other Stories by Penguin Classics in 2004. </p><p>This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30...
Episode #12
<p>Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón from Poem-a-Day, published by the Academy of American Poets in 2017.</p><p>This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art...
Episode #11
<p>William Shakespeare says our riches on the inside is better than anything we could find on the outside, and we agree.</p><p>This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with...
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